He was born in Ascog on the Isle Of Bute , Strathclyde . In his early career he worked at the Ministry Of Education (1884-1919). He was later Oxford Professor Of Poetry (1906-1911), and President of the British Academy (1932-1936). He was a friend of William Morris , and wrote the 1899 official biography. He also published works on Virgil , the Latin poets, the Icelandic sagas, Shakespeare and the sayings of Jesus . He married Margaret Burne-Jones ( 1866 - 1953 ), the only daughter of artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones . They lived in Kensington and later Holland Park . He became a member of the Order Of Merit in 1935. He died in London .
The couple's elder daughter, Angela Margaret, and their son, Denis George, are better known as the novelists Angela Thirkell and Denis Mackail .
- ''Love in Idleness: A Volume of Poems'' (1883) anonymous, with H. C. Beeching and J. B. B. Nichols
- ''The Aeneid of Virgil'' (1885) translator
- ''Virgil Eclogues and Georgics'' (1889)
- ''Select Epigrams From The Greek Anthology'' (1890)
- ''Love's Looking Glass'' (1892) with H. C. Beeching and J. B. B. Nichols
- ''Biblia Innocentium: Being the Story of God's Chosen People Before the Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ Upon Earth, Written Anew for Children'' ( Kelmscott Press , 1892)
- ''The Georgics of Virgil'' (1899)
- ''The Life of William Morris, two volumes'' (1899)
- ''The Little Bible'' (1900)
- ''William Morris: An Address Delivered at Kelmscott House Hammersmith Socialist Society'' (1902)
- ''Addresses, four volumes'' (1902/5)
- ''The Parting of the Ways: An Address'' (1903) given in the William Morris Labour Church at Leek, 5th October 1902
- ''Socialism and Politics: An Address and a Programme'' (1903)
- ''Latin Literature
- ''Homer: An Address Delivered on Behalf of the Independent Labour Party'' (1905)
- ''The Sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ'' (1905)
- ''William Morris and His Circle'' (1907)
- ''The Hundred Best Poems in the Latin Language'' (1908)
- ''Latin Literature'' (1909)
- ''The Springs of Helicon: A Study of the Progress of English Poetry from Chaucer to Milton'' (1909)
- ''Swinburne'' (1909) University of Oxford lecture April 30, 1909.
- ''Lectures on Greek Poetry'' (1910)
- ''Pervigilium Veneris'' (1911) editor and translator
- ''Lectures on Poetry'' (1914)
- ''Russia's Gift to the World'' (1915)
- ''The Study of Poetry'' (1915) inauguration of the Rice Institute
- ''Penelope in the Odyssey'' (1916)
- ''Pope'' (1919) Leslie Stephen Lecture, University of Cambridge 10 May 1919
- ''The Hundred Best Poems'' (lyrical)'' (1920)
- ''Virgil and His Meaning to the World of To-day'' (1922)
- ''Shakespeare'' (1923) Inaugural Address to the Australian English Association
- ''Bentley's Milton'' (1924) British Academy Warton Lecture
- ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1924) Royal Institution Lecture March 14, 1924
- ''Life and Letters of George Wyndham'' (2 vols.) (1924) with Guy Wyndham
- ''Classical Studies'' (1925)
- ''James Leigh Strachan-Davidson, Master of Balliol. A Memoir'' (1925)
- ''Studies of English Poets'' (1926)
- ''Largeness in Literature'' (1930)
- ''The Approach to Shakespeare'' (1930)
- ''Coleridge's Literary Criticism'' (1931)
- ''Virgil'' (1931) Henriette Hertz Trust Lecture of the British Academy.
- ''The Odyssey'' (1932)
- ''Virgil's Work: The Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics'' (1934)
- ''Studies in Humanism'' (1938)
- ''Poems by Bowyer Nichols'' (1943)
- ''An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid'' (1946)
- ''Selections from the Georgics of Virgil'' (1948)
- ''Latin Literature'' (1962) Harry C. Schnur editor
- ''The Holy Bible for Young Readers, The New Testament
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